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Medals & Decorations

The Ashmolean Museum has a very good collection of British historical medals, dating from the Tudor period to the present day, with particularly high concentrations for the 18th and 19th centuries. Its continental and world holdings are very diverse, with some particularly significant medals of the Italian Renaissance; Germany and the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Baroque age; the papacy; etc. The decorations are mostly British and date from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.

British commemorative medal - Churchill and the Dunkirk Evacuation 25th Anniversary Commemorative Medal (HCR98994)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Presidential Art Medals Inc., Englewood, Ohio, Edward R. Grove

Mint

MACO=Medallic Art Company, New York (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

THE RIGHT / HONOURABLE / WINSTON / CHURCHILL / E. R. GROVE / © PAM, quarter-length bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

DUNKIRK / MAY 26 · JUNE 4 / 1940, scene at Dunkirk: evacuation ship at anchor, two troop-filled small boats rowing out to it, airplanes above, smoke and shell explosions in background

British commemorative medal - Churchill and the Dunkirk Evacuation 25th Anniversary Commemorative Medal (HCR98996)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Presidential Art Medals Inc., Englewood, Ohio, Edward R. Grove

Mint

MACO=Medallic Art Company, New York (Modern)

Dating

1966

Obverse

THE RIGHT / HONOURABLE / WINSTON / CHURCHILL / E. R. GROVE / © PAM, quarter-length bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left

Reverse

DUNKIRK / MAY 26 · JUNE 4 / 1940, scene at Dunkirk: evacuation ship at anchor, two troop-filled small boats rowing out to it, airplanes above, smoke and shell explosions in background

Canadian memorial plaque - Churchill Memorial Plaque (HCR95073)

Period

Modern

Person

Dora de Pédery-Hunt, Sir Winston Churchill, Industrial Fine Castings, Ltd., Toronto

Dating

1967

Obverse

CHURCHILL / Hunt, solitary seated figure of Sir Winston Churchill, as seen from the rear; artist's signature; roughened technique

Reverse

Dora de Pédery-Hunt, signature of the artist etched on

Canadian commemorative medallic plaque (HCR95081)

Period

Modern

Person

Dora de Pédery-Hunt, Sir Winston Churchill

Dating

1967-1969

Obverse

Hunt 67, portrait bust of Sir Winston Churchill, 3/4 facing, executed in the roughened technique; signature of the artist etched on

British commemorative medal - the 6th Britannia Commemorative Society medal (HCR95762)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, William M. Gardner

Dating

1967

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE of STRATFORD VPON AVON / 1564- / 1616, portrait of William Shakespeare, facing; surrounded by wreath of laurel, tied at bottom

Reverse

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits / and their entrances; / AS YOU LIKE IT : ACT II ScVII / BCS-6 / 1967 / W.M. GARDNER, view of an Elizabethan theatre with theatregoers in the pit

British commemorative medal - the 6th Britannia Commemorative Society medal (HCR95763)

Period

Modern

Person

William Shakespeare, William M. Gardner

Dating

1967

Obverse

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE of STRATFORD VPON AVON / 1564- / 1616, portrait of William Shakespeare, facing; surrounded by wreath of laurel, tied at bottom

Reverse

Churchill Memorial and Library Commemorative Medal (HCR96922)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Oscar F. Klinke, Bates & Klinke, Inc., Attleboro, Mass.

Dating

1967

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly right

Reverse

· WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL · FULTON MO / STERLING, view of the St. Mary, Aldermanbury, Church as reconstructed as part of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.; clouds behind; Bates & Klinke monogram

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial and Library Commemorative Medal (HCR96943)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Oscar F. Klinke, William R. Scott, Jr., Bates & Klinke, Inc., Attleboro, Mass.

Dating

1967

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly right

Reverse

· WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL · FULTON MO, view of the St. Mary, Aldermanbury, Church as reconstructed as part of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.; clouds behind

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial and Library Commemorative Medal (HCR96944)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Oscar F. Klinke, William R. Scott, Jr., Bates & Klinke, Inc., Attleboro, Mass.

Dating

1967

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly right

Reverse

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial and Library Commemorative Medal (HCR96945)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Oscar F. Klinke, William R. Scott, Jr., Bates & Klinke, Inc., Attleboro, Mass.

Dating

1967

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly right

Reverse

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98641)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Geoffrey Colley

Dating

1967

Obverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL · 1874·1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left, dressed in the robes of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Reverse

MOTHER OF / PARLIAMENTS, The Houses of Parliament as they appeared on their 700th anniversary in 1965

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98642)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Geoffrey Colley

Dating

1967

Obverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL · 1874·1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left, dressed in the robes of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Reverse

MOTHER OF / PARLIAMENTS, The Houses of Parliament as they appeared on their 700th anniversary in 1965

British memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98658)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Geoffrey Colley

Dating

1967

Obverse

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL · 1874·1965, bust of Sir Winston Churchill facing, slightly to left, dressed in the robes of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

Reverse

MOTHER OF / PARLIAMENTS, The Houses of Parliament as they appeared on their 700th anniversary in 1965

British commemorative medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98688)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Arnold Machin

Mint

The Franklin Mint, Exton, PA, U.S.A. (Modern), Johnson, Matthey & Co., Ltd., London (Modern), John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1967

Obverse

♢ SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ♢ 1874 ♢ ♢ ♢ ♢ 1965 ♢, bust of Sir Winston Churchill to left

Reverse

WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER / BCS 5 / 1967, rampant lion to left, holding an upraised sword; behind, a restored St. Paul's Cathedral portrayed phoenix-like arising reborn from fire

British commemorative medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98689)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Arnold Machin

Mint

The Franklin Mint, Exton, PA, U.S.A. (Modern), Johnson, Matthey & Co., Ltd., London (Modern), John Pinches (Medallists) Ltd., London (Modern)

Dating

1967

Obverse

♢ SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL ♢ 1874 ♢ ♢ ♢ ♢ 1965 ♢, bust of Sir Winston Churchill to left

Reverse

WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER / BCS 5 / 1967, rampant lion to left, holding an upraised sword; behind, a restored St. Paul's Cathedral portrayed phoenix-like arising reborn from fire

American memorial medal - Churchill Memorial Medal (HCR98700)

Period

Modern

Person

Sir Winston Churchill, Oscar F. Klinke

Dating

1967-1979

Obverse

WINSTON CHURCHILL MEMORIAL FULTON MO, view of the St. Mary, Aldermanbury, Church as reconstructed as part of the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo.